(Tokyo, yes Tokyo everybody knows in the world)Let's Surpass the Year 2009 with Coming 2010
Japan is not a nation of "A to Z" or alphabets.
Japan is a nation that uses Kanji and Kana letters and alphabetical expressions.
As nowadays Koreans do not respect Kanji letters, Japan, Taiwan, and China are the major countries using characters invented in ancient China which are called "Kanji" in Japan and "Hanji" in China and Taiwan.
One letter that symbolizes the year 2009 of Japan is as follows, in my choice:
Some Japanese have been really honored this year not because they have won power, wealth, or reputation but mostly they won respect from their neighbours in any field or echelon.
Indeed, Michael Jackson died mysteriously and Mr. Tiger Woods lost honor, but President Mr. Barack Obama together with First Lady have secured their 2009 Christmas with further hope.
Personally, I have further confirmed that the God can do what a man cannot do: cope, endure, and surpass the time and the space...
SECTION I: Japanese and Coins
Japanese people do not love metal coins traditionally.
Ancient Imperial regimes tried to diffuse coinage to follow ancient China, only in vain.
It is after the first samurai regime was established in Kamakura, 40 Km west of Tokyo and 510 Km east of Kyoto the Imperial capital, in the 12th century, that coins came to be widely used among Japanese people.
Nonetheless, Japanese people including samurais liked to use Chinese coins rather than national coins. For 500 years, since the establishment of the first samurai regime, successive samurai governments refrained from striking and issuing official coins.
However Japan imported a huge quantity of coins from China. As it was so extensive and exhaustive, the court of Sung dynasty (960-1279) of China even inhibited export of coins to Japan.
Ancient Japanese people not only lived by barter but they also relied on human networks in a village, a region, or a sub-state in their daily life. Tax was mostly put on rice. Officials sent from Kyoto to local territories must have been able to resort to their dignity and power without using coins as means of purchase.
But, as development of economy allowed the regime change from the Imperial court to samurai regime, coinage also started to be prevailing in Japan with the emergence of the age of samurai. But yet, samurais did not like to strike coins.
Samurai leaders never wanted to depict their faces on coins.
SECTION II: Structure of Human Sphere
Without money and law, human society can stand.
However, it absolutely needs defense force and order.
But yet, without a proprietary means of production or acquisition, men cannot subsist.
Finally, without blessing from God, man cannot develop wisdom and accumulate knowledge.
In this way, priority order in this context must be as follows:
1. Religion
2. Technology and Economic System
3. Force and Order
4. Monetary System and Law
Truly, without Christianity first, today's prosperity in Europe is impossible.
Without Christianity and Judaism, first and subsequently, today's prosperity in America is impossible.
Without Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Marxism/Judaism if so relentless, today's success in China is impossible.
Without Hinduism and Buddhism if so ancient, today's potential of India is unthinkable.
Indeed, without original spiritualism, unique Buddhism, and adapted Confucianism, Japan cannot glow on the earth and in history.
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2009 Xmas Extra
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Questionaire results targeting 4500 hotels in the world:
BEST TOURISTS
1. Japanese
2. Britons
3. Canadians
4. Germans
5. Swiss
MOST POLITE
The Japanese
MOST QUIET
The Japanese
MOST CLEAN
The Japanese
(Reporting by Joseph Tandy; editing by James Mackenzie)
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/nobytajp/e/64891a11599cffee7c29569fc7b48d92
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Overwhelmingly, 4500 hotels in the world have honored the Japanese people in 2009, too.
Praise the Lord who is Almighty!
(http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~mss7k4/ce-1012.mid
Etude No.12 by Shopin in 1833 is for the 2009 Christmas as my humble choice.
Source:http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~mss7k4/music.html)
Mat 12:12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Mat 12:13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.